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Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina speaks during the Republican Presidential Debate hosted by Fox Business and The Wall Street Journal November 10, 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AFP PHOTO / JOSHUA LOTT (Photo credit should read

Carly Fiorina’s Three-Page Tax Plan

Carly Fiorina recommended five steps to reduce the size of government and “really get this economy going again”: zero-based budgeting, instead of giving government agencies automatic spending increases every year; passing the Raines Act to shift power away from unaccountable bureaucrats to Congress; holding a top-to-bottom review of all regulations so we can roll many of them back; holding government officials accountable for their performance; and reforming the tax code.

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California Conservatives React to GOP Debate

There seems to be universal consensus that between the reduced number of participants, and the quality of the debate questions and follow-up from the panelists, the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate was the strongest by way of policy substance thus far.

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Carson: I Wouldn’t Raise Minimum Wage

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated that he opposed raising the minimum wage during Tuesday’s primetime GOP presidential debate on the Fox Business Network. Carson was asked, “You have suggested one minimum wage does not fit all, and that

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Ben Carson: The News Media Will Never Move On

Campbell Brown, editor-in-chief of The Seventy Four, interviewed Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson who said while the public has moved on he is not convinced the media will ever move on from scrutinizing his past. Brown asked, “Do you

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Dr. Ben Carson Signals Openness To Obamatrade’s Pacific Rim Trade Deal

This is the first time Carson himself has weighed in on Obamatrade, and the move comes after his spokesman Doug Watts previously told the Wall Street Journal he was open to it. Watts told the WSJ the day after President Barack Obama’s White House released the 5,544-page, 100-pound, several-feet-high-when-printed-out trade deal that Carson “believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.”

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Carson: ‘I Would Much Rather Lose an Election Than to Lie’

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson defended himself in the wake media scrutiny of his past, including what some alleged to have been discrepancies about his past. Carson insisted to host Bill O’Reilly that

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Grassley: Carson Should Get Some Leeway

Monday on Newmax.TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)  said Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson should get some leeway on the media scrutiny of his past. Grassley said, “And Carson’s specific case, I would say that when you

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Audit Shows Hillary Clinton Has the Most Fake Twitter Followers

The Washington Examiner reports an audit of the Twitter accounts for the 2016 presidential candidates found Hillary Clinton has the highest percentage of phony followers by far, a whopping 41 percent. This means that of the 4.65 million followers Clinton claims, 1, 906,500 of them might be fakes.

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Marc Lamont Hill Calls ‘The Myth Of The Self-Made Person’ a Lie

“The greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person,” Marc Lamont Hill says. “Nobody makes themselves. We’re all shaped by communities, by people who struggled and sacrificed for us, by governments that offer safety nets. And what Ben Carson is able to do essentially is reject all that stuff and say that I was saved.”